Côtes du Rhône "Terre d'Aigles" 2022 - Domaine Richaud

Côtes du Rhône "Terre d'Aigles" - Domaine Richaud

The Côtes du Rhône "Terre d'Aigles" by Domaine Richaud is a very fresh and slender red wine obtained from a blend of Grenache, Syrah, Carignan, and Counoise. The grapes come from various vineyards, with an average age of 60 years located near the Aigue river, in the municipality of Cairanne, on sandy and clayey soil. Manual harvest. Spontaneous fermentation, with short short maceration in a concrete tank. Aging in concrete for 7 months. Slight addition of sulphites (15 mg / l) only at bottling.

Service

It is recommended to taste it at a temperature of 16/18 ° in tulip glasses. Wine to be drunk immediately but left a few years in the cellar can give great emotions.

Pairing

A wine for the whole meal, from pasta with tomato sauce to escalopes with mushrooms, to try with a Fassona tartare.

Winery: Domaine Richaud

Since the early 1980s, Marie and Marcel Richaud have joined Gaston, Marcel's father, in the family winery. The territory is that of Cairanne, a prestigious cru of the southern Rhone Valley, not far from the renowned Châteauneuf-du-Pape. The local terroir is diversified, but mainly pebbly, sandy and clayey-calcareous: all lithological matrices ideal for the vine. Year after year, Marie and Marcel distance themselves from conventional agriculture, to increasingly orient themselves towards organic management. A sensitive and responsible approach that, starting from the nineties, also eliminates all the oenological additives from the cellar, with the exception of a thoughtful use of sulphites. In the vineyard no more systemic, but only contact products, no herbicides but tillage of the soil, short pruning and very low yields (around 35 hl / ha). This process of agronomic awareness and respect leads to official organic certification in 2008 for all the 80 hectares cultivated today between Cairanne and Rasteau. Since 2014 it has been the turn of the children, Claire and Thomas, who take up the baton of the Domaine Richaud. The vinification is preceded by the utmost care for the collection of the raw material: manual harvesting in crates, double sorting, in the vineyard and in the cellar. Once in the cellar, the must and the nascent wine are treated with delicacy and skill: strictly spontaneous fermentations (no selected yeasts), with temperature control, no use of sulphites during vinification (but only, in a very measured way, at bottling ), no filtration or oenological clarification. Refinement takes place in full consistency with the Rhône tradition: in large barrels or in demi-muids (400-600 liters). This is how authentic, elegant, rich and extraordinarily balanced Côtes-du-Rhône, Cairanne and Rasteau are born.